In Nature Plants: Prominent TADs in rice

Prominent topologically associated domains differentiate global chromatin packing in rice from Arabidopsis

Chang Liu, Ying-Juan Cheng, Jia-Wei Wang & Detlef Weigel

Nature Plants (2017) doi.org/10.1038/s41477-017-0005-9

The non-random three-dimensional organization of genomes is critical for many cellular processes. Recently, analyses of

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In Genome Biology: 3D genome of interspecific hybrids

Altered chromatin compaction & histone methylation in an interspecific Arabidopsis hybrid

Wangsheng Zhu et al., Genome Biology 2017 18:157, doi.org/10.1186/s13059-017-1281-4

Background: The merging of two diverged genomes can result in hybrid offspring that phenotypically differ greatly from both parents. In … Read the rest

2017 Campus Soccer Tournament

Two awesome WeigelWorld soccer teams participated in this year’s campus tournament.

Denisovans

The Elephants

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In Science: Ancient maize adaptation to temperate climate

Genomic estimation of complex traits reveals ancient maize adaptation to temperate North America

Swarts, K., Gutaker, R. M., Benz, B., Blake, M., Bukowski, R., Holland, J., Kruse-Peeples, M., Lepak, N., Prim, L., Romay, M. C., Ross-Ibarra, J., Sanchez-Gonzalez, J. d. … Read the rest

Collaboration with Huq lab: Splicing and phytochrome signaling

Out in PNAS: SPF45-related splicing factor, phytochrome signaling & pre-mRNA splicing

Xin et al. (2017) SPF45-related splicing factor for phytochrome signaling promotes photomorphogenesis by regulating pre-mRNA splicing in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1706379114

Pre-mRNA processing not only … Read the rest

Congratulations, Dr. Diep Tran!

Diep successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled ‘Biochemical Basis of Autoactivity of a Pair of Plant NLR Immune Receptors’.

Congratulations, Diep!

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Congrats Danelle: Dissertation Award of Teufel Foundation

Danelle received today the dissertation award of the Reinhold-und-Maria-Teufel-Stiftung.

Danelle Seymour defended her PhD thesis on “Exploring the genetics and genomics of Arabidopsis thaliana and its relatives” last year. The dissertation award of the Reinhold-und-Maria-Teufel-Stiftung, which includes a personal purse … Read the rest

On bioRxiv: Segregation distortion in Arabidopsis thaliana

The genetic architecture of recurrent segregation distortion in Arabidopsis thaliana

Danelle K. Seymour, Eunyoung Chae, Burak I. Ariöz, Daniel Koenig, Detlef Weigel

doi.org/10.1101/158527

The equal probability of transmission of alleles from either parent during sexual reproduction is a central tenet … Read the rest

On bioRxiv: Arabidopsis genome assembled with one Nanopore flowcell

High contiguity Arabidopsis thaliana genome assembly with a single nanopore flow cell

Arabidopsis thaliana genome assembly with a single Oxford Nanopore flow cell

Todd P. Michael, Florian Jupe, Felix Bemm, Stanley T. Motley, Justin P. Sandoval, Olivier Loudet, Detlef Weigel, … Read the rest

Detlef’s latest talk

Curious about his keynote at the VIB Conference “At the Forefront of Plant Research”?

Check out his presentation on figshare!… Read the rest